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rinconliterario · 2 years

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Guardaba su intimidad como yo guardaba la mía, celosamente; al precio de la soledad, sí, pero sin dar lugar a la invasión de los demás. "Vidas privadas" Angelica Gorodischer

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nevinslibrary · 3 months

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Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

This book takes place in the town of Weissenfels in Germany in the boarding house that had been the birthplace of a poet named Novalis (had to look him up, interesting person and poet). It’s about the lives of the women that lived there as the nineteenth century moved along.

It was very very dense, definitely not a ‘watch cooking shows while reading’ sort of book. And, it was much more prose poetry instead of straight up prose. It took me a bit to get into the rhythm of it, but, once I did it was a beautiful and definitely interesting piece of fiction.

You may like this book If you Liked: Her Side of the Story by Alba De Cespedes, Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri, or The Door by Magda Szabo

Prodigies by Angélica Gorodischer

#weirdandwonderfulwednesday #nmlRA #nevins memorial library #prodigies #angelica gorodischer #sue burke translator

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st-just · 1 year

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im hard pressed to find a book you havent read yet that you migh probably like but i have the advantage of knowing books from my country which hopefully will be translated to english. so with that in mind: Kalpa Imperial from Angelica Gorodischer. the fictitious history of an ancient empire told through a collection of short stories narrated by a spokesman at the public plaza reciting it to a crowd. there is history and politics and economics and its reminiscent of a thousand and one nights

So I, unfortunately, actually have already read that :P - it was for the (I think?) 'translated work' square on a bingo card thing a couple years back.

Honestly don't think the translation did it many favors, but that's my own fault for only being fluent enough to read for pleasure in one language. Absolutely fascinating book.

#reply #fipindustries #kalpa imperial #Angelica Gorodischer

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crowns-of-violets-and-roses · 4 months

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I already knew Edessbuss because I buy the clay from them that I sell on Dosirdoo IX where they make the finest porcelains, china, and ceramics in that whole sector, but I had never stayed more than a day or two, enough for the purchase and the loading. Really nice people, always good humored, easy to make friends with. I have a couple of excellent friends there, The Owner of the Cold Winds and The Toughest Tamer of the Pale, Pale Star. Not counting The Duchess of Bisque or The Splendorous Girl, who are two fantastic people. No, no, those are their names, they’re not titles or nicknames. At twelve years old, each one chooses their definitive name and as they have imagination and a sense of humor and everything is permitted, the results are terrific. And that’s not all. I met the Blue and Glaucous Giant, and Possessed by Women, The Angel Archangel Ultraangel, The Savage Captainess of the Storm Clouds, The Inventor of a New Color Every Day, The SuperFat Empress—anyway, you would not believe.

Trafalgar, Angélica Gorodischer

#Trafalgar #angelica gorodischer #quotes

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resaltado · 8 months

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"Yo voy a ver teatro y no podría reemplazarlo con nada. Todo lo que veo y oigo me parece vital y digno de mí mayor atención y de mí recuerdo." Angélica Gorodischer, "Cartas de una inglesa", en Las pelucas (Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1968)

#angelica gorodischer #teatro

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booksopandah · 2 years

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Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer

It took me a while to figure out what I was reading, but it was gorgeous the entire time. This is not exactly a “story”, but more accurately a story book of an empire, complete with tales and histories and parables. It’s so pretty to read, and it flows so easily as prose.

If you really want characters that grow throughout the book, this isn’t for you. All you have is a storyteller in a rather regal tent, and their stories, most of which are true, and some of which even happened. It’s just so much fun. Please enjoy, and be very confused the whole time.

#books #sff books #kalpa imperial #angelica gorodischer

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dragnew · 2 years

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"Ferrets are small, tawny animals with four paws and a snout. They use their front paws to dig their underground cities, to hunt rats, and to hold food and baby ferrets. They use their hind paws to stand up, to mount females, and to jump. They use all four paws to run, walk, and dance. They use their snout for sniffing and to grow whiskers on, for eating, and to show their kind and benevolent feelings. They also have a furry tail, which is a source of pride to them. Justified pride, moreover, for what would become of a ferret who wasn’t proud of being a ferret?"

Kalpa Imperial

#Wise words about Ferrets #Ursula Le Guin #Angelica Gorodischer #Ferrets

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garadinervi · 2 years

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Le visionarie, (2015), Edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, Italian edition by Claudia Durastanti and Veronica Raimo, Translations by Emmanuela Carbé, Marta Maria Casetti, Gaja Cenciarelli, Silvia Costantino, Livia Franchini, Tiziana Mancinelli, Sara Marzullo, Francesca Matteoni, Oriana Palusci, Lorenza Pieri, Chiara Reali, Clara Miranda Scherffig, Nicoletta Vallorani, Cristina Verrienti, NERO, Roma, 2018. Contributors include: Angela Carter, Angelica Gorodischer, Anne Richter, Carol Emshwiller, Catherynne M. Valente, Eileen Gunn, Eleanor Arnason, Elizabeth Vonarburg, Hiromi Goto, James Tiptree Jr., Joanna Russ, Karin Tidbeck, Kelley Eskridge, Kelly Barnhill, Kit Reed, L. Timmel Duchamp, Leena Krohn, Leonora Carrington, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Octavia Butler, Pamela Sargent, Pat Murphy, Rachel Swirsky, Rose Lemberg, Susan Palwick, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Vandana Singh

#graphic design #typography #illustration #book #cover #book cover #back cover #ann vandermeer #jeff vandermeer #claudia durastanti #veronica raimo #produzioni nero #2010s

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ailelie · 2 years

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31 Books I Love or Otherwise Recommend

Ask me about any of them and I'll tell you why I love it.

31 Books I Love or Otherwise Recommend

(01) The Wren series by Sherwood Smith (02) Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem (03) Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn (04) The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (pseud for Sarah Monette) (05) Interrogations at Noon by Dana Gioia (06) Nosferatu by Dana Gioia (07) Things Are Disappearing Here by Kate Northrop (08) The Hardy Tree by Linda Bierds (09) The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett (10) American Gods by Neil Gaiman (11) City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer (12) Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (13) Kalpa Imperial by Angelica Gorodischer (14) Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin (15) The Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French (16) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (17) The Kate Martinelli series by Laurie R. King (18) Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (19) The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (20) Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut (21) The Bas-Lag series by China Mieville (22) Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (23) The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (23) The Medical Detectives by Berton Roueche (24) Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (25) Fever Trail by Mark Honigsbaum (26) There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (27) The October Daye series by Seanan McGuire (28) The Alchemy of Stone by Ekateria Sedia (29) Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (30) Silverlock by John Myer Myers (31) The Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch

#tempted to replace one of them with Drood by Dan Simmons but I can't decide which one #books #recs #book recs #i just realized i listed 23 twice #oh well it is staying that way

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rinconliterario · 2 years

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Casi no me acuerdo de mi lectura escolar de La Divina Comedia pero creo que al infierno se va entrando de a poco.

"Vidas privadas" Angelica Gorodischer

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enyuliwrites · 2 years

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Recent Favourites - 1

Stories

Trafalgar Angelica Gorodischer

Poison for Breakfast Lemony Snicket

Noctures Kazuo Ishiguro

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman

Dimmer Joy Williams

Mr Parker Laurie Colwin

Poetry & Plays

Go to the Limits of Your Longing Rainer Maria Rilke

Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem Matthew Olzmann

Up Margaret Atwood

my dreams, my works must wait till after hell Gwendolyn Brooks

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern Gabrielle Calvocoressi

The Notebook Ben Lerner

The Dice House Paul Lucas

Audiobooks/Podcasts

Audible

Heartburn Nora Ephron

Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered Georgia Hardstark & Karen Kilgariff

On Writing Stephen King

The Writer’s Voice – The New Yorker

Annunciation Lauren Groff

Hello, Goodbye YiYun Li

Essays/Extracts/Interviews

Interiors Rainer Maria Rilke trans. Damion Searls (Issue 190, 2009, The Paris Review)

The Art of Fiction No. 78 James Baldwin interviewed by Jordan Elgably (Issue 91, 1984, The Paris Review)

Re-Reading

Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke

Some Hope Edward St Aubyn

At Last Edward St Aubyn

Music

The Traveling Wilburys, Vol.1 Traveling Wilburys

Little Oblivions + Turn Out the Lights Julien Baker

Kid Krow Conan Gray

Home Video Lucy Dacus Desire Bob Dylan

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refigured · 4 years

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I saw the nothingness of everything," the Argentinian astronaut said on reaching the edge of the universe. "The nothingness of the world is like the inside of a stomach throbbing above your head. The nothingness of people is like the back of a painting, black, with glasses and wires that release dreams of order and imperfect destinies. The nothingness of creatures with leathery wings is a crack in the air and the rustle of tiny feet. The nothingness of history in the massacre of the innocents. The nothingness of words, which is a throat and a hand that break whatever they touch on perforated paper; the nothingness of music, which is music. The nothingness of precincts, of crystal glasses, of scams, of hair, of liquids, of lights, of keys, of food."

--Angelica Gorodischer, the Unmistakable Smell of Wood Violets.

#science fiction #Angelica Gorodischer #The Big Book of Science Fiction

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driftwork · 4 years

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AG - Kalpa imperial... arrives in the post

#ideology and discourse #Angelica gorodischer #fiction

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straydog733 · 4 years

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Reading Resolution: “Trafalgar” by Angelica Gorodischer

3. A book written in South America: Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer, translated by Amalia Gladhart

List Progress: 23/30

The structure of Trafalgar, the interconnected short story collection by Argentinian author Angélica Gorodischer, is fascinating. This sci-fi story technically all takes place in Rosario, Argentina, mostly at a table in a single coffee shop, as the titular bon vivant, Trafalgar Medrano, drinks coffee, smokes cigarettes, and tells stories to his friends. But each of those stories is of an intergalactic voyage he took as a merchant, selling and trading treasures from planet to planet, and all of the new worlds and fascinating aliens he met there. There is no other indication that humans have made contact with aliens and that this is anything but the actual city of Rosario, so Trafalgar could be the champion of first contact or a raving madman, but either way, he tells a good story and keeps his friends entertained. It’s a solid structure that leaves a lot to consider, but I found myself left cold by the contents this structure supports.

The alien worlds Gorodischer creates are very much part of a trend in 60’s and 70’s sci-fi: basically inhabited by humans, but with one or two Big Differences that the author can use to interrogate an aspect of our own culture. Originally published in Spanish in 1979 (translated into English in 2013 by Amalia Gladhart), it has a very retro feel that is interesting to step back into. Plus it makes sense in-universe: people in the cafe might not want to listen to a man raving about incomprehensible space slugs, but would get caught up in a story about visiting a planet of people controlled by the reanimated dead. His spaceship, referred to as “his clunker”, has no explanation, no real description, no reason why a salesman has Earth’s only intergalactic flying machine: he just does, because that’s how the stories can happen.

With all of that said, the stories themselves feel quite rote, and many of them drag on for far too long, making you want to hurry up both Trafalgar and Gorodischer. Trafalgar himself wasn’t that entertaining to me, with his casual sexism and overall smarm. The first story has him seducing (read: tricking and raping) the beautiful queen of an all-beautiful-women planet, and it took me a bit to remember that this was written by a female author. The narrative calls out his sexism enough that you could argue it is a critique on the stock male sci-fi characters of the time, but that didn’t make it any more enjoyable to read.

Angélica Gorodischer is a big name in South American science fiction, and I’ve noticed even some fans of hers weren’t huge fans of this book in particular, so I might need to revisit her work at some point to see if Trafalgar is an outlier. But some interesting ideas and good framing couldn’t make up for the meat of these stories.

Would I Recommend It: Not really.

#straydog's reading resolution #trafalgar #angelica gorodischer

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svourvoulias · 6 years

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Guatemalan and Mexican jarras, used to make and/or serve chocolate, atole and café de olla, hold molinillos and other wooden kitchen implements. The Guatemalan jarra, on the left, bears the inscription: “No me olvides” (“Don’t forget about me”).

This is the time of year when the timelines of speculative fiction writers and reviewers fill with awards eligibility posts listing stories and novels readers might consider nominating for upcoming Nebula and Hugo awards.

It can be a humbling time for those of us who are slow to write and slow to submit. Many of my colleagues in the field have four or five eligible short stories, and at least one eligible longer piece (novelette, novella or novel); I have only one. And while it is true that I’m not a fantastically prolific fiction writer even in the best years, I know my creative output took a real hit in 2017.

From chatting with and hearing the comments of other Latinx writers, I’m not the only one. The profound and recurring political threats to our local and national communities, as well as the catastrophic natural events that have impacted us, our friends and loved ones, have taken a toll. Understand — none of us are laying down or laying off, none of us are willingly muting our voices at a time when it becomes more and more urgent to speak out — but writing can feel like slogging through particularly thick and bitter molasses these days.

Still, you know what they say.

One. Story. At. A. Time.

My award nomination eligible short story this year — “Sin Embargo,” published in the anthology Latin@ Rising in January — is among my favorites. It plays across languages. It looks at tough issues of displacement and migration and politically motivated brutality, and still finds a way to speak of love, of hope, and of the radically transformative magic of interpersonal solidarity. It is a bear to read aloud because of all the bilingual homographs, and yet I insist on doing just that at public readings because … well, there is delight to be had in noting difference and similarity and the possibility of wholeheartedly embracing both.

In “Sin Embargo,” by Sabrina Vourvoulias, the psychology of immigration and asylum collides with inhuman transformation. — Kirkus Reviews

“Sin Embargo” is not, unfortunately, available to read online for those who might want to read it for nomination consideration. But the whole anthology is top-notch and well worth purchasing in print or eBook, and it deserves a a much wider SFF readership than it has had so far.

Latin@ Rising includes wonderful reprint stories from writers celebrated by the SFF community (Junot Díaz, Carlos Hernández, Daniel José Older and Carmen María Machado), along with remarkable original stories by Latinx literary luminaries that are perhaps less known to SFF-only audiences, like the superb Kathleen Alcalá and Ana Castillo. It also includes the first English-language translation of a short story, “Accursed Lineage,” by Daína Chaviano, who is considered one of the three most important SFF authors writing in Spanish (Argentina’s Angélica Gorodischer and Spain’s Elia Barceló are the other two).

I honestly believe that if Latin@ Rising had been reviewed by SFF-focused review sites, or if it had gotten the attention other, more mainstream SFF anthologies have received this year, many of its stories would already be on people’s Nebula and Hugo nominating lists. I’m particularly fond of “Caridad” by Alex Hernández, “The Drain” by Alejandra Sánchez,”Room for Rent” by Richie Narvaez, and “Flying Under the Texas Radar With Paco and Los Freetails” by Ernest Hogan. (I wish there were an award somewhere for ingenious story titles because Hogan would be a repeat winner. “Pancho Villa’s Flying Circus” in the anthology We See a Different Frontier is another good one of his.)

Beyond Latin@ Rising

I read a lot of other great short stories this year and no way can I remember them all, but among those that live most vividly in my memory are:

“The Famine King” by Darcie Little Badger (Mythic Delirium)

“Monster Girls Don’t Cry” by A. Merc Rustad (Uncanny Magazine)

“Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine)

“Naranjas Inmortales” by Ezzy Guerrero Languzzi (from the anthology Strange California)

“The Obsidian Codex“ by David Bowles (from his 2017 collection of short stories Chupacabra Vengeance). I think this story is longer than a short story, possibly novelette length? A further word about this collection (which contains my favorite Bowles story, “Wildcat,” originally published by Apex Magazine in 2015): Many of the stories in the collection are very dark and contain horrors beyond the commonplace … a number of them really should be under consideration for a Shirley Jackson award.

“The Corporal” by Ali Bader. All right, this short story isn’t actually eligible for nomination since it appeared (translated) in the 2016 anthology Iran +100, but I only read it this year so, for me, it is identified with this year’s great pieces. I urge you to seek it out simply for the pleasure of reading a beautifully written fantasy with sci fi elements.

As far as 2017 novels are concerned, I haven’t yet read most of the ones that have been mentioned in the overlapping “Best of” lists are being published now. Still, I am hoping that the exceptional “American Street” by Ibi Zoboi is on lots of folks’ award-nominating lists in either the novel or YA categories. And, yes, it is good enough to deserve to be on both at once.

If I can dredge up more recommended reads from my memory banks during this nominating period, I’ll update this post. Stay tuned.

And don’t forget to nominate!

2017 awards eligibility and what I’ve loved reading this year This is the time of year when the timelines of speculative fiction writers and reviewers fill with awards eligibility posts listing stories and novels readers might consider nominating for upcoming Nebula and Hugo awards.

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sapphixxx · 4 years

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I've been reading children's/ya books almost exclusively since last September, cause I'm hoping to be a youth librarian, but this month I read a couple adult novels. And man. It's easy to forget how much more sophisticated the writing tends to be in adult fiction. Very refreshing after so many months.

#i have some thoughts on both of them I'll post when i get time #they were Witchmark by CL Polk and Kalpa Imperial by Angelica Gorodischer #both highly recommended

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